David G. Lowe is a
Canadian
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computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
working for
Google
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as a Senior Research Scientist. He was a former
professor
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in the
Computer Science Department
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at the
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...
and
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
.
Works
Lowe is a researcher in
computer vision
Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...
, and is the author of the patented
scale-invariant feature transform
The scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) is a computer vision algorithm to detect, describe, and match local ''features'' in images, invented by David Lowe in 1999.
Applications include object recognition, robotic mapping and navigation, ima ...
(SIFT), one of the most popular algorithms in the detection and description of image features.
Awards and honors
* 2015. Lowe received the biennial
PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award.
References
External links
Home page
Canadian computer scientists
Computer vision researchers
Living people
University of British Columbia faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
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